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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m trying to remember if a child dressed up as an accountant or computer scientist ever showed up at our door on Halloween.[/quote]

No, but that’s why they don’t choose careers until they are adults.[/quote]

Make sure you teach them about the value of a pension, being paid for every minute you work, and early retirement. Luckily the youngest among us will see the deleterious effect of AI on careers in time to make more stable career decisions.[/quote]

You’re assuming the pensions and early retirement will still be offered to new hires in 15 years or so. That’s a big assumption.

Many of the best paying and prosperous jobs for those kids are likely not even understood yet.
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Like plumbing?[/quote]

Plumbing being gobbled up by PE, low paid for the PE-owned firms, and you're physically broken by age 50.

The only plumber I know with a pension works for the state of California. Very good union wage and benefits. But again.....government job seems to be the answer.[/quote]

Are you unfamiliar with unions?[/quote]

“Using the closest official occupation category, “plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters,” about 115,000 workers were union members in 2025, out of about 518,000 employed, for a union membership rate of 22.2%. If you include workers covered by a union contract whether or not they were members, the figure was about 119,000, or 23.0%”

So yeah, close to 80% are non-union. [/quote]

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